Guitar great Leslie West is showing a positive attitude to his recent leg amputation. Talking to Billboard.com, he said it was “a good thing it wasn’t one of my arms. Then I’d be really [expletive].”
Having a concert tour and album lined up has been good for his recovery, he thinks. West worked on Unusual Suspects with Slash, Zakk Wylde and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons.
“I’m glad the album was all done before [the leg amputation] happened, because... there’s no way I would even care about doing an album if it wasn’t,” he said. “But I’m glad it’s all done and it came out great and I’m really proud of it. Everybody on there is a top-flight guitar player. Each guy was an experience in itself... It was only up to me to [expletive] it up!”
Dates have been announced for the tour, and West plans on being ready in the fall. “I’m hoping I’ll have my prosthetic by then,” West said, “but we’ll see. Even with Mountain shows I did, I would stand and sit for the ballads and so on and so forth. But I could [stand] up. Now I have no idea what it’s like because I haven’t gotten that far yet. So we’ll see what happens and just hope for the best.”
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